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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. The Medical Roundup Park fir Shop at Emeritai Consultant in MeHe!n- Alr.yo t-urjc Emeritus Professor of Medlcln. Mayo Clin Wednesday, Jan. 6, 1960 A School for the Menially Handicapped So many distressed mothers write asking where research is being done on mental re tardation that every so often I will mention one of the great schools in this coun try in which mentally dis til r b e d and p h y s i c a lly h a n dicapped dr. alvarez cnnaren are cared for. One of them is "The Woods School," in Lang- home, Pennsylvania, where 400 children are cared for by 407 employees-doctors, teach ers, therapists and nurses, Considerable research is car ried on, and there are 58 spe cial education teachers. An other great school for the mentally retarded is the Vine- land, New Jersey School. Why Our Roads Aren't Safe : As a physician who has to know a good deal about hu man beings-good, bad, and in different, feeble-minded, stu pid, half-insane, and criminal I have a strong conviction that most of the urging that we hear all the time over the radio to drive safely is a com plete waste of time. Obvious ly, from the statistics, it doesn't do any good. One wouldn't expect it to do any good, because the people who drive safely don't need any urging, and those who are criminal, or stupid, or insane enough to run through stop lights-are not interested in exhortations. Some studies of habitual traffic offenders have shown among them many cases of insanity, feeble-mind-edness, criminality, and don't-care-a-darn-ness. I recently read that when a bus full of college girls stopped for a red light, the truck behind it came on un heedingly: crashed, and set the bus on fire. What did I read? That the driving his tory of the man in the truck was "pock-marked with traf fic violations and convictions. In the past five years he had committed at least seven vio lations such as speeding and passing red lights." But there he was. still driving. Through the years, as I have gone to renew my driv er's license, I can't remember ever having seen anyone around the office with either interest or skill or authority to decide that, for reasons of immorality, insanity, low in telligence, senility, or a bad past record on the road, I should be denied a license. So far as I could see, I could have gotten the license with out questions if I had been feeble-minded or insane, a psychopathic delinquent, a no torious gangster, or even if I had been arrested 20 times Also, I wondered if, for some rare reason, I had been denied a driver's license, might I have arranged the matter quickly by "seeing the right man." As long as our licensing regulations are the way they are, I can't see why we should fuss when a lot of fine young women and their professor are burned to death. Actually, we don't fuss, and we don't do any-thing-and that is the tragedy. Blood-Tinged Semen Some men are concerned because their semen contains tinges of blood. Experts in this field tell me that, as a rule, that is of no conse quence. Cancer of the seminal vesicles (the little containers of the semen that lie just in back of the bladder) is rare. More often the vesicles are inflamed. A man with this finding would do well to con sult a urologist. Hairy Women Need Not Fear Shaving Many women who are much distressed by hair over large areas of skin realize that for them the cheapest method would be shaving. But they hate to use a razor because they have heard somewhere that shaving will make the hair coarser. Ac tually, years ago, in 1923, a Dr. Trotter, a woman physi cian, made careful studies, shaving the hair on one leg for many months, and not touching the hair on the other leg. Then she carefully meas ured the thickness and the pigmentation of the hairs on the two sides, and failed to demonstrate any difference. We should all know that a man can shave for 50 years and still have a fine blond and almost invisible type of hair on his face. Vitiligo, or Leucoderma In this harmless, but men tally distressing disease, large areas of skin lose pigment and become white. There is a drug that is said sometimes to make the pigment come back, but at times it does not work, and I have heard that at times it does harm. If it is used at all its use should be watched by a physician. Some men paint the patches with a weak solution of permanga nate of potash, just strong enough to color the skin for the day. Other physicians cov er the patches with the prep aration "Covermark" which can be bought in drugstores. MISSILE SITE - Known as Thor site 75-1, emplacement number one, this is where the first Thor missile is scheduled to be fired. It is at the site of Vandenberg Air Force Base, in California, which construction crews have rapidly built into a first-class city. . (UPI Telephoto) Vandenberg Made Into City by Fast Work of Building Crews Dr. Alvarez' booklet on arthritis and rheumatism may be obtained by sending 25 cents and a large, stamped, self-addressed envelope with your request to Dr. Walter C. Alvarez, Dept. MMT, The Register and Tribune Syn dicate, Box 957, Des Moines 4, Iowa. (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, I960) BLOOD CONTENT Dextrose, a form of sugar, is found in the blood. Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. -IUPB- A fair-sized "city" of about 20.000 persons has blossomed almost overnight here on the central California coast. It is identified by its resi dents simply as "Vanden berg." Officially, Vandenberg is the Strategic Air Command's first major missile base in tended for operational capa bility. And by this definition, it also is the free world's first such installation. In slightly more than two years, a virtual regiment of construction workers and en gineers has succeeded in build ing this whole new city, with homes, stores and streets; wa ter, sewer and electric sys tems; hospitals, schools and recreational facilities. Has Fire Stations Vandenberg even has fire stations, a bank, a bowling al ley, a toyland for children -and a jail. Yet no ordinary city was ever built with such concern for time schedules. And no other city has some of the "sights" you can find at Vandenberg. These are the structures for launching Atlas, Thor and Ti tan missiles and for guiding and tracking those missiles in their flights. The building of Vandenberg is unique in another way, too. Only two years ago it was a deserted Army camp, big enough to fit Manhattan the heart of New York City within its borders. But it was a ghost town of boarded-up buildings, broken roads and lawns that had become hay fields. It was late in 1956 that the Air Force announced its choice of Camp Cooke - Van denberg's old name - as the site for the nation's first mis sile base. Brand New Installation The big job ahead then was to take the old armored war fare training camp, utilize what still was usable and re make it into a brand new kind of military installation for missiles. In May, 1957, an Army Corps of Engineers contractor started work on the first technical site for the new base. Within a month another con tractor started the first job on the base proper. With this two-pronged ef fort, changes in the base's ap pearance were kaleidoscopic. The first-arriving missilemen met an endless parade of car penters, plumbers, plasterers and electricians. Base roads crawled with construction machines and trucks carrying loads of earth and building materials to job sites. Punctuating all the ac tion was the clatter of pneu matic hammers. The quantities of building materials required were al most beyond imagination. For one group of 100 buildings, the nails alone amounted to a full load of 40 pick-up trucks. The 8,000-foot airfield taxi way and 13 missile launchers consumed more than 1,250,000 bags of cement. An Air Force statistician figured that the amount of earth workmen removed to put certain missile facilities underground would make a solid column of soil 40 feet thick and a half-mile high. Dormitories Ready By early 1958, the first dormitories were ready for airmen. Every month there after engineers completed more buildings. In July, 1958, the basic construction of the first Thor launchers was com- Pemiey'sI Terrific Cfloseouf! Downtown in Medford Shop Mondays Till 9 P.M. Pillows! Pillows! Pillows! 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Filled with 100 dacron by DuPont, mildew resistant, baby soft filling, non-allergenic, resilient. Finished size 18x24. 16-oz. weight. 1 00 300 pelted. In January, 1959, the first Atlas launch complex was ready for instrumentation and checkout. And the following month the new Vandenberg Airfield was ready. Now, most of the work of rebuilding Camp Cooke into Vandenberg is done. A mod ern main gate gives a front door impression of an up-to-date base both in purpose and appearance. The impression goes right through to the mis sile launchers - even though the modern look has come so rapidly that the odor of fresh paint still lingers. So far, engineers have awarded 92 major construc tion projects, committing ap proximately 91 million dollars for basic construction alone. When all costs for technical facilities, plus costs of hous ing, are added, the total comes to about 200 million dollars. Vandenberg a populous little city all by itself about half way between Los Ange les and San Francisco - is headquarters of the Strategic Air Command's 1st Missile Division. "Peace is Our Mission," the division's motto. is Decline Noted in Reported Cases A large decline in cases re ported to Medford city police last month, in comparsion to a year ago, was shown by the police department's monthly report. The percentage of cases cleared remained about the same. A total of 2,461 cases were reported in December-, 1959, and 2,327 of these were clear ed for a percentage of 94.6. In December, 1958, there were 3,299 cases reported, of which 3,169 were cleared for 96.1 per cent. City police received a re port on one suicide last month and no reports of murder, manslaughter or rape. The largest decrease in any crime reported to city police was in larceny under $50, with 68 cases reported last month and 86 a year ago. There were 12 cases of larceny over $50 re ported, and 14 cases a year ago. Traffic accidents reported to city police increased from 51 in December, 1958, with 12 injuries, to 95 last month with 36 injuries. There were no traffic fatalities reported. City police issued 3,493 parking meter tickets last month, compared to 3,709 in December, 1958. Organizer Named To Back Humphrey Portland (DPD State Rep. E. E. (Ed) Benedict, Portland, has been appointed organizer for the Oregon Democrats for Humphrey, it was announced today. Benedict has been a mem ber of the committee support ing Sen. Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota for the Democratic presidential nomination since its start last summer. George Washington was 57 when he became President. FURS Repairing and Relining Cleaning and Glazing Restyling Frances' Fars 610 Valley View SAME PHONE SP 2-6526 0 r 3 BIG DAYS! 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